Hold it. Now he is claiming he was diagnosed in 2009?Cyivel said:This is what he said in December last year
This is what he said today
Hold it. Now he is claiming he was diagnosed in 2009?Cyivel said:This is what he said in December last year
This is what he said today
If you look at the quotes in the link bewildered posted, he has mentioned 2009 before but there is some confusion/contradiction over the date as well.BroDeal said:Hold it. Now he is claiming he was diagnosed in 2009?
They was robbed.nomapnocompass said:Vanishing twin, whisky defence, bilharzia...
I suppose it will be back to zig-zagging up the climbs.D-Queued said:So much for Froome-dog winning any more races then.
Dave.
LOLThe Hitch said:I'd love to hear what some of those from the early conversations who have experience with bilharzia think about someone living with bilharzia undetected for 5 years yet still being able to show in training power outputs so high that everyone around him knew he was capable of dominating the tour de France.
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/schistosomiasis-leafletThe Hitch said:I'd love to hear what some of those from the early conversations who have experience with bilharzia think about someone living with bilharzia undetected for 5 years yet still being able to show in training power outputs so high that everyone around him knew he was capable of dominating the tour de France.
This deserves some disambiguation. Some of the reinfection rates in the public health research I read was due to the lack of consistent health care follow-up AND being exposed to the opportunity to be infected. The same is true for many of the consequences of Badzilla. Froome's case is none of those things.thehog said:Not sure how he thinks he is cured.
If you keep going back to the source then you can be reinfected.
Like the common cold. There's no cure and if you're others with the virus then it can be caught again.
So if he keeps swimming in Kenya then he might get it again.
What are your thoughts on the badzilla? Made up? legit? somewhere in between?red_flanders said:Bumping this thread. People discussing it in the Sky thread should have a read, there are a lot of answers to the questions floating around in that thread.
It's not that long of a thread, seems reasonable to take the time to read it if you're interested enough in the topic to keep bringing it up in the Sky thread.
Realising you asked someone elsethe sceptic said:What are your thoughts on the badzilla? Made up? legit? somewhere in between?
It wasn't de Jongh,it was Julich,that other well known paragon of clean cycling.Dear Wiggo said:Realising you asked someone else
It seems plausible, however the waters become increasingly muddy the more conflicting the stories are unearthed regarding its discovery.
The story that really tipped me over the edge of wtfery was de Jongh or someone similar saying they discovered the Bilharzia through perusing Froome's training & racing diary. JFC what an absolute crock of brown stinky crap that made the rest of it look. Like de Jongh was some Kenyan parasitic diseases expert or something ffs.
Thanks. I got the first letter of their name rightTournesol said:It wasn't de Jongh,it was Julich,that other well known paragon of clean cycling.![]()
Too many varying accounts to make any sense of it. I would guess he probably had it at some point, and it later got co-opted as a cover story. The problem is that there have been so many accounts it seems clear people are lying about it. I can only think of one reason why there would be so many different accounts of how, when, what effect, and who found it.the sceptic said:What are your thoughts on the badzilla? Made up? legit? somewhere in between?
How Froome managed to be infected for years and not pass blood through his urine is pretty damn miraculous imo.The reported increase in bilharzia cases in Lusaka's N'gombe township must attract the attention of all the responsible authorities.
This disease is commonly noticed when somebody passes blood in urine.
http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=48334
He was, but they did not see it, as they are all wearing rose-tinted glasses to help overcome their collective dyslexia.....Dear Wiggo said:I thought this was interesting:
A letter to the editor of the Zambia Post:
How Froome managed to be infected for years and not pass blood through his urine is pretty damn miraculous imo.
There are two types of bilharzia, or schistosomiasis as it's also called: intestinal (Schistosoma haematobium) and urinary (Schistosoma mansoni).Dear Wiggo said:I thought this was interesting:
A letter to the editor of the Zambia Post:
How Froome managed to be infected for years and not pass blood through his urine is pretty damn miraculous imo.
The worms are switched aroundDJ Sprtsch said:There are two types of bilharzia, or schistosomiasis as it's also called: intestinal (Schistosoma haematobium) and urinary (Schistosoma mansoni).
Froome probably had intestinal schisto? It has probably been covered elsewhere around here.
That there are 2 distinct strains, I would imagine Froome/sky would know which one he had/has but that they have not said makes it more of a smokescreen. It will be interesting if Walsh gives it enough attention to mention ( or even bother to investigate) which strain he had/has.Dear Wiggo said:The worms are switched around
intestinal = (Schistosoma mansoni)
urinary = (Schistosoma haematobium)
They have never said which one he had, and given the eggs apparently have distinct shapes, I am guessing it could have been determined.
Either way, the symptoms he experienced are incredibly mild given the range of symptoms available.
Maybe he mentions it in his book?Benotti69 said:That there are 2 distinct strains, I would imagine Froome/sky would know which one he had/has but that they have not said makes it more of a smokescreen. It will be interesting if Walsh gives it enough attention to mention ( or even bother to investigate) which strain he had/has.